Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN (UML)) is a moderate communist political party in Nepal that was founded on 6 January 1991. The party was one of several communist parties born in Nepal during the early 1990s, and Man Mohan Adhikari was its first parliamentary leader. The party led the governments of 1994-1995, 2009-2011, in 2011, and 2015-2016, and it practiced a moderate form of communism called "People's Multiparty Democracy", which supported a multiparty democracy in which the people could show their true support for the communist parties through democratic elections.